GOP MELTDOWN: First GOP vote loss since 1997?? Wow, this is HUGE!

[johnnyrocket]

Didn't realize the iron fist they ruled with for so long! I guess, like any good minion, I grew USED to their abuse.


http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=3646



HOUSE GOP MELTDOWN UPDATE:

The Plank's favorite Hill correspondent just checked in:

Hey, if you haven't been watching it, the House GOP has lost their first floor vote since, well since I started working here in 1997.

The new "leadership" team is flailing. Moderates are talking of fielding a leadership candidate in January, the right wingers are about to drive the moderates out into the rice paddies, it's absolute anarchy.

Apparently this vote was on the House-Senate conference report on the Labor-HHS spending bill. (The bill went down, 220-209. The House promptly adjourned for GOP leaders to have a hyperventilation session.) We'll try to find out what the blowup was. Thoughts very welcome from other Hill staffers out there (email address below).

MORE: Think our correspondent is exaggerating? Check out the lead story in this morning's CongressDaily. It's not about the Labor-HHS bill, but it suggests that House Republicans may be headed over a cliff:

With the clock ticking down for the second week in a row on a contentious spending reconciliation package... GOP members and aides who support the legislation are sending out warning signals that Republicans might be on the brink of a war within the ranks if Congress cannot muster the votes to approve the bill.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. This is great!!

And a huge deal! :woohoo:

[Broken_Hero]

9. yes,....it is great...:)

[shenmue]

2. Hooray!

Falling Repub. hopes...Timberrrrrr!

:7

:party:

[TomInTib]

3. And it was THEIR bill!

They have finally realized that the folks back home are going to hold them accountable for these cuts in vital services.
No more false hopes on our end, this is definitely the beginning of the end.
This was historic. They defeated a bill they wrote themselves, behind closed doors.

Seeya, jerks.

[Inland]

4. They tried to bribe the few moderate GOP

Now we need you, they said, and it still didn't work. Spending is out of control and on none of the right shit.

[bemildred]

5. It's all about control, the expectation of being obeyed.

They are toast. It will be interesting to see what is constructed to replace them.

[bunny planet]

6. We needed to get rid of Delay, that is the key. Keep those indictments

coming Ronnie Earle. Keep Hot Tub Tom out of the house and this lovely meltdown will continue.

[RazzleDazzle]

7. Holy Criminy!

Whodathunkit??

This is simply astonishing news. May the trend last until every last one of them has been run out D.C. on a rail, tarred and feathered, with tails between their legs.

[Doctor_J]

8. Yes, eight years of unfettered reign,

and still they blame the DEMS for the war, the deficit, the recession, the world-wide hatred, crime, etc. What a bunch of losers.

[yellowcanine]

10. Don't you mean "HUGH" ?

[TrogL]

11. Pity you aren't using a Parliamentary system

Time for a vote of non-confidence

[Polemicist]

12. GOP forming circular firing squad...

I hope they all are excellent marksmen.

[No Exit]

13. Filthy f*cking republicans...

I want to be there to stick my foot in their faces when they're finally dumped in the dirt by these up-and-coming leaders of ours.

That's right--one little nobody who had nothing to give but a single vote (at a Diebold-controlled polling machine) wants to have that last bit of glory. I think the real leaders would at least be amused by my request.

The good day will come for me when I see the state republicans in my state sent to the bottom of the toilet, indicted (as they currently do to any democrat leader, with their corrupt courts), convicted, jailed and FORGOTTEN.

[salin]

14. Due to their second vote... the real metldown is right around the corner.

They just lost their reelections. Populism has been gaining traction for awhile. THe whole 2006 election landscape shifted with that vote - sadly there are millions of americans who will pay - the cost of the future and huge meltdown, in terms of costs to the neediest in our society, is too high.

Scoundrels can't be chased out of office quickly enough.